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So there's this dwarven child who was injured in the danger room. Her foot got all smashed up. Now she's hanging out in the hospital. My doctor keeps hauling her to the traction bench but then says she's not resting, and leaves her there. She then pathetically crawls back to her bed (three tiles away) over several weeks. The cycle of pain continues. 

Now, from what I've been reading this seems like the kind of situation where I need to re-injure her. How can I best accomplish this? Build a repeating training spear under her?

Also, is there any way to get rid of the "Urist McMissingLimb cancels Clean Self: Area Inaccessible" spam? I have several badass amputee champions but they're driving me up the wall.

So, in the interest of starting a war with the elves, I've taken to seizing all of their goods and then dumping their traders into my pit-o-doom. I have a setup like this:

+++++++++++++
X|0000000000X|
X|=========X|
X|=========X|   out <-> in
X|=========X|
X|0000000000X|
+++++++++++++

+ is fortification
= is bridge (retracts)
0 is open space (16 z-level pit)
X is floodgate
| is wall grate

As soon as the caravan leaves my trade depot, I close the outer portcullis (wall grates) and wait for the elves to all pile up against it. Then I wait until anybody I care about gets out of the way, and close the inner portcullis, trapping the elves on the bridge and avoiding accidents. Then I pull the level, bridge retracts, elves fall to their messy, messy deaths.

Now, the last time I did this, several of the elves went ended up on the OUTSIDE of the portcullis (floodgates were left open) and promptly ran away. Do retracting bridges toss things a short distance upward? I was under the impression that objects on them just fell.

HFS Question:

Also, what's the BB code for a spoiler cut so I can add another level of hiddenness here?

EDIT: got it, thanks Frelock

So, y'see, I had some Master Marksdwarves I was training up. I decided to cross-train them in hammers, so they'd get some crossbow-smashing skill and level their armor/shield use a bit. However I let them get all the way to Legendary Hammerdwarves.

Since "military dwarves stick to what they're best at," even if I switch them back to crossbows they'll just spar in the barracks and hit each other over the head with them all day. When they go on duty they won't engage the enemy at range or indeed, pick up any ammo.

They're still pretty kick ass, but I want my marksdwarves back. Is there any way to trick them out of their hammering fixation? I miss my rampart snipers...

Or should I say, "funboat."

I embarked on a site with a chasm... upon arrival I discovered that the chasm was open to the surface. My wagon was parked RIGHT NEXT TO IT. I drafted my woodcutter, to whom I had gifted some combat skills just in case, and stationed him there while my other dwarves hauled ass and cargo to a safer location.

Then, just as I was digging an entryway, I was formally ambushed by three troglodytes... and a giant cave spider. My dwarves fought bravely but were quickly webbed and eviscerated.

FORTRESS FAIL

I have a quick question about how dumping works. I was going to figure it out by experimentation but I figured I'd ask first.

Let's say I want to dump rocks in one pile by my mason's workshop, and butchered chunks in a hole deep in the earth.

I disable the pit dump, enable the rock pile, and mark a bunch of stones for dumping. The dwarves will begin hauling rocks to the pile.

Now, if I disable the rock pile and enable the garbage pit, I can imagine the dwarves will either
(a) Continue to haul rocks to the rock pile, as it was the one that was active when the dump job was created,
(b) Dump the rocks in the pit, because it's the only dump that's active now.

I guess it's a question of when the pathfinding occurs... when the job is created or when the dwarf takes on the job...??

If it's (b), is there a (better, more reliable) way of differentiating my dump zones as described above?